英语新闻听力教程unit6原文及答案

Unit 6 Public Health

Section A warming up

1. life expectancy

2. regulators abortion

3. rabies

4. infected with cases

5. bird flu immune

6. outbreaks -borne

7. prescription medicines

8. AIDS

9. antiviral 10. Medicare Section B 1. B

Tapescript: 1. The problem of obesity is spreading into many different aspects of Americans’ lives. Now researchers have confirmed that some children are so fat they can’t fit into car safety seats designed for kids.

2. Two more Indian states have banned the sale of soft drinks produced

by . giants Coca-cola and Pepsi-cola after a test by an environmental group showed high pesticide levels. This brings the total number of states to

six where there is a partial or full ban of the soft drinks.

3. An Asian expert says disease and natural disasters may pose a great security threat to the region than conventional political conflicts.

4. The United Nations say opium cultivation in Afghanistan has declined

for the first time since 2001 as tens of thousands of farmers have given

up opium poppies for legal crops.

5. The authorities in Iran have warned that if the dangerously high level

of air pollution in the capital ‘’Teheran continues, there could be thousands of casualties. Section C

Item 1 1. A

Tapescript: The number of people infected with HIV, the virus that can

lead to AIDS, is still rising and has passed 14 million worldwide for the

first time. The United Nations said there had been five million new infections this year and warned that AIDS was outstripping global and national efforts to contain it. Sub-Saharan Africa remains the worst affected region. In Asia, where more than eight million people are infected, the UN says infection rates are rising sharply. It warned that Pakistan, in particular, was on the verge of a serious epidemic.

Item 2 Task 1 1. T

Task 2 1. international conference malaria West African

state scientific findings

in lost GDP

3. world’s population is transmitted

Tapescript: The biggest ever international conference on malaria has begun in the West African state of Cameroon to discuss the latest scientific findings on the disease which kills more than million people worldwide each year. 75 percent of those victims are African children.

Of the 2,000 delegates meeting in the capital Yaounde, 80% are from Africa.

The disease costs the continent more than 12 billion dollars in lost GDP

each year. The latest research suggests that 41% of the world’s population live in areas where malaria is transmitted.

Item 3 1. Whether more than one food company is responsible for an outbreak of E. coli bacteria. 2. Bad spinach from Natural Selection foods 3. Earth Bound Farm 4. It has recalled the spinach. 5. get rid of any fresh spinach in bags or other containers. 6. One person died and dozens were sick in 19 states.

Tapescript: The Food and Drug Administration is investigating whether more than one food company is responsible for an outbreak of bacteria. Officials have linked bad spinach from natural Selection Foods as one source of the . the company says the products are sold under the brand name Earth Bound Farm. Doctor David Atchison with the FDA says Natural Selection Foods has voluntarily recalled the spinach. The FDA advises shoppers to get rid of any fresh spinach in bags or other containers. At least one person has died. Dozens of others have gotten sick in at least 19 states.

Section D EU Health Experts Meet to (1) Formulate Measures to contain the (2) Bird Flu

Recent outbreaks(3)German authorities confirmed the (4) presence of the H5N1 virus in (5) wild swans. Outbreaks have also been reported in (6) the Balkans, (7) Turkey, the Caspian Sea areas

countermeasures Increase surveillance and (8) toughen import bans (9) dedicate an additional million dollars for surveillance and (10) testing programs

order farmers to keep poultries indoors (11) to prevent transmission of the disease. Tapescript:European health experts have gathered in Bussel to formulate a response to recent bird flu outbreaks among migratory birds. The Panel today endorsed measures that would increase surveillance and toughen import bans, such as the European Union’s plan, suspending the imports of untreated feathers from non-EU countries. The European Commission has dedicated an additional million dollars for bird surveillance and testing programs. German authorities today confirmed the presence of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus in wild swans on an island in the Baltic Sea. Outbreaks have been confirmed in the Balkans, Turkey, the Caspian Seas and elsewhere. Several EU countries have ordered farmers to keep poultries indoors to prevent transmission of the disease. But the World Organization for Animal Health in Paris says this is not necessary at the present time.

Item 2

Task 1 1. D

Task 2 1. F 3. T

Tapescript:A week after a toxic waste scandal brought down the government of Ivory Coast teams of Ivorian and French experts are still trying to establish exactly what the material was composed of. Tons of waste from a ship were dumped in leaking drums in at least 11 open air locations in Ivory Coast’s biggest city Abidjan. Our correspondent James Copnall is

there. The latest health ministry figures show that nearly 16,000 people have sought treatment and 6 have died as a result of the toxic waste. The numbers increased dramatically each day. This does not necessarily mean that the health situation is deteriorating just as rapidly, however, a state of panic seems to have set in. meanwhile, teams of French and Ivorian experts were attempting to find out what exactly the toxic waste was composed of.

Item 3

1. It has issued an updated version of its strategy for dealing with a possible influence pandemic.

2. The updated strategy needs cities, states, and businesses to prepare now to keep operating on their own and not on federal help.

3. It could make up to 40% of the workforce too sick to work for two weeks at a time. The infection could remain active in a community for up to two months.

4. The pandemic could cause as many as two million deaths in the United States.

5. it tends to break out when a never-before-seen strain of the virus starts passing from person to person.

Tapescript: The White House has issued an updated version of its strategy for dealing with a possible influenza pandemic. The plan warns cities, states and businesses that they should prepare now to keep operating on their own and not count on federal help, and says that a flu pandemic could make up to 40% of the workforce too sick to work for two weeks at a time and that the infection could remain active in a community for up to two months. In the worst place, the report says, a pandemic could cause as many as two million deaths in the United States. Influenza pandemic tend to break out when a never-before-seen strain of the virus starts passing from person to person. Scientists are currently worried that the Asian bird flu might mutate into that kind of virus.

Section E

1. The move is expected to reduce expenses involved in the drug that has been hailed as a life-saving treatment.

2. in the study patients who cut their smoking in half also cut their risk of lung cancer by 27%.

3. European Union officials continue to reassure the public that the apparent spread of the avian flu virus is at this point a threat to animals not humans.

4. One hundred and twenty-three identification cards had been issued to patients who need them to prove to law enforcement personnel that they used marijuana for medical purposes.

5. Analysts say total spending on research into malaria last year accounted for only about one third of one percent of total medical research and development funding.